Amul is Seriously Good - How agile is your brand?

Amul has one hell of a branding strategy, they take whatever is happening in politics, entertainment, sports etc and turn the situation in to a billboard to tell their butter / jam / milk product story. Almost every week they do this, so restlessly that when something big happens, customers tend to think how Amul [...]

Excel can be Exciting - 15 fun things you can do with your spreadsheet in less than 5 seconds

Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do.
Happy Friday
1. Change the shape / color of cell comments

Just select the cell comment, go to draw [...]

Windows Mojave Experiment Kicks Ass

Wow, this is totally cool. A great lesson in creating buzz.
The folks at windows vista wanted to convince people that Vista is indeed a good operating system and upgradable from XP. But there are lot of bad opinions floating around and end users are more or less confused about it. Personally I have rarely used [...]

Mute conversations in Gmail to not follow a specific thread of mails

Do you know that you can mute conversations in gmail if you are do not want to see that lengthy thread on single subjected that people wont give up.

Just select the mail / conversation you want to mute
Click on “More actions” and select “mute”
Enjoy the bliss

If you want search for muted conversations use “is:muted” search [...]

Cool infographics around the web

Starting this week I will post cool infographics from around the web, 4-5 of them a week to inspire , to give more ideas on presenting information and to provide some eye candy for awesome readers @ Pointy Haired Dilbert.
Go ahead, click through these awesome graphics:

California Walkability Score Heat Map

Lee Byron took the [...]

Google Maps adds directions by Public Transport - Wow

Wow, this is awesome. Google maps has added directions by public transport. Sometime back when they integrated public transport timings along with bus-stop / train station icons, it was pretty cool, but adding directions based on bus / train routes is totally awesome. Try it for yourself, click here to see a sample direction.

Awesome folks at flickr introduce instant zoom for photos

Wow, this is one of the coolest features on flickr, you can use instant zoom to see finer details of pics (the ones which have all sizes allowed for anyone).